Oh brother. Lautenberg was the prototype for Biden. Senator Bob Torricelli was caught red handed being an utterly corrupt SOB and selling his office right before the election. He dropped out of the election about a couple of weeks before the election and NJ jaw says you can't change candidates at that point so he must remain on the ballot. A judge said literally that it was more important that a viable democrat be on the ballot than to follow the law and so they went back to Frank Lautenberg. He had resigned years before because dementia was setting in. But they figured he had name recognition and average citizens didn't know he was brain dead (especially since he didn't campaign or make public appearances at all) so they voted for him and he won. Mission accomplished.
He was a vegetable as a Senator, someone was pulling his strings obviously. Anyway, I imagine in 2020 someone said "hey, remember how we put a mindless fool on the ballot in NJ because people knew who he was and thought he was experienced and competent and he never campaigned and it actually worked? We should do that again! Someone call Biden!"
That sounds vaguely familiar...